I'm installing the Power BI gateway (standard) and it asks me to enter a user account (screenshot below).
What account should this be? Service principal? or an user account? What account should be used here so that there for example if the user leaves the organization then there won't be any issues?
What account should this be? Service principal? or an user account?
User account of a gateway admin.
What account should be used here so that there for example if the user leaves the organization then there won't be any issues?
Add another gateway admin in the service. The important thing is to retain and securely store in a shared location the Windows Admin account credentials (if non-domain-joined) and most importantly the gateway recovery key.
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I am setting up a service account in GCP in order to call the Directory API.
But I always get permission error: Not Authorized to access this resource/api.
I have setup this role but no luck. How do I know what permission I need to configure in order to call the API?
Google Directory API is not a part of GCP - hence any roles / permissions you assign to your service account will not work.
You have to create a role and assign it to a user in order to be able to work with this API.
Your service account is not a Domain Admin so it doesn't have access. You can however enable domain-wide-delegation and make the service account impersonate domain admin so your requests will be accepted;
This page describes how to allow members and resources to impersonate, or act as, an Identity and Access Management (IAM) service account. It also explains how to see which members are able to impersonate a given IAM service account.
Have a look at this answer which may be usefull to you. One more document that you may find helpful is "Authorising your request".
Using Google Cloud, there exists a BigQuery View table that queries two projects.
However, on the project where the view is located, we wish to run a query against it from Airflow/Composer. Currently it fails with a 403.
AFAIK it will use the default composer service account - however it doesn't have access to the 2nd project used in the sql of the view.
How do I give composer's service account access to the second project?
Think about a service account like a user account: you have a user email that you authorize on different project and component. Exactly the same thing with the service account email.
The service account belongs to a project. An user account belongs to a domain name/organisation. No real difference at the end.
So, you can use a service account email like any user accounts:
Grant authorization in any project
Add it in Google Groups
Even grant it viewer or editor role on GSuite document (Sheet, Docs, Slides,...) to allow it to access and to read/update these document!! Like any users!
EDIT
With Airflow, you can defined connexions and a default connexion. You can use this connexion in your DAG and thus use the service account that you want.
I think you have to add the service account into project IAM.
I have my enterprise Quicksight in place and with users using our company email to register an account (like john.doe#mycompany.com). We're using Gmail for business.
On the other hand we have developed another application backed by AWS Cognito user pool using Google as an identity provider, and since this is the same user base our intention was to use the same user pool for Quicksight access. In addition we will develop a Lambda that would synchronize Cognito user group association with Quicksight memberships if/when necessary.
I've followed the example described here https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/use-amazon-quicksight-federated-single-sign-on-with-amazon-cognito-user-pools/, but the problem is that even though I login as different users I get access to Quicksight via same IAM role. The Quicksight user associated with this role has a specific username starting with CognitoQuickSight1-AuthRole-KX4Y16... and email associated with the user I used to login the very first time.
Now I'm wondering if in this setup it's even possible to have different roles associated with different users so they can be differentiated on Quicksight side? Or is there any other way to achieve this?
I don't think you can assign QuickSight user specific permission on Federated users.
Some AWS services allows to use the user identity in the resource base IAM policy. For example S3 (to allow user to access only their 'directory' in a bucket) and DynamoBD (to allow user to only access item where their identity is the primary key).
According to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/security_iam_service-with-iam.html Quicksight does not support Resource based or Tag based policies.
A Google group of which I'm Manager have been granted certain permissions to access certain BigQuery tables. Effectively all user in the group can access to those tables using their personal credentials.
I would like to share those permissions with a service account and access the tables using service account credentials.
Is this possible? How to configure it?
A service account is generally used for Server to Server communication (between applications). With that in mind, a service account has associated an email address just like the ones associated to your personnel. So, you can assign roles/permissions to the service accounts using its email just like you assigned to your group.
I hope that the following steps help you in some manner:
Create a service account.
Assign predefined BigQuery roles (Admin, DataEditor, User, etc).
Download its json file which contains the credentials.
Use those credentials to authenticate and authorize your application.
To add a specific permission (owner, edit or view) on a specific dataset you can use its service account email.
I am setting up an AWS Account, the account will be used by an organization of employees for EC2 use/experimentation. Obviously, I do not want to distribute the root login info or set up one single IAM user for everyone to use. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to manage creating individual IAM users for everyone on a regular basis.
So, is there a way to auto-create IAM users based on a given email's domain on their first login attempt? The users should have read-only roles to begin, then an Administrator could give more roles as needed to each user. I am open to suggestions, perhaps lambda functions or linking to an identity provider?
Keep in mind that these new IAM users need to have access to the AWS Management Console, this is not necessarily intended for login to applications hosted on AWS.
Update:
Moving forward using this AWS Management Console Federation Proxy Sample found in Amazon's code reference, using with Microsoft Exchange hosted email.
If your existing identity provider supports SAML2 Federation, you can set it up to login to the AWS Management Console.
For more details refer Enabling SAML 2.0 Federated Users to Access the AWS Management Console.
Else you can implement a custom Federation Broker to return an URL to the user, after they authenticate with their corporate credentials.
For more details refer Creating a URL that Enables Federated Users to Access the AWS Management Console (Custom Federation Broker).